restaurantRestaurant: Impossible · Season 7, Episode 4 · Aired November 13, 2013
Coach Lamp Restaurant & Pub
Louisville, Kentucky
It closed and is no longer operating.
On the show
Season 7, Episode 4 · November 13, 2013 · restaurant
episode title: "Outside the Box"
What happened after
Restaurant Guru direct-fetch confirms 'permanently closed' with matching business name and address.
What happened on the show
Coach Lamp Restaurant & Pub in Louisville, Kentucky, run by Bill and Gail Darling, earned its seventh season makeover on the show's fixed terms, 48 hours of work and a five figure refit fund the network keeps tight. No episode recap survives on Wikipedia, so how Irvine reshaped the room and menu is not reconstructed here. The eventual outcome is a closure, confirmed through Restaurant Guru's direct listing, which marks the Vine Street business permanently closed with a matching name and address. Worth noting for anyone tracing this one: the show later built a seventh season trivia special around the same restaurant, so Coach Lamp appears twice in the record, once for this original rescue and once as a look back, both pointing at a single business that did not survive.
After the cameras left
Coach Lamp is closed. Restaurant Guru, fetched directly, confirms the Louisville restaurant as permanently closed with a matching business name and address, and it is absent from OpenTable's network as a secondary signal. A directly verified directory record puts the closure at high confidence. Owners Bill and Gail Darling's Vine Street restaurant could not turn its television rescue into a lasting business, and it eventually went dark, joining the group of season-seven businesses that did not survive their aftermath.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.